A tourist was dressed in dark clothing and was probably distracted by stargazing when he was killed by a car on an unlit rural Queenstown road, a coroner has found.

A man has turned himself in to police after a car ploughed into a Titirangi cafe last night.

A diner leaped for his life when a speeding car mounted the pavement and crashed into a West Auckland cafe last night.

Two people were killed last night when a Fonterra milk tanker and car collided in Waikato.

A car mounted the pavement and struck stunned a diner before ploughing into a Titirangi café tonight.

Two people have died in a two vehicle crash in Waikato.

A pilot who ran a stop and caused a car crash that seriously injured colleagues has today been ordered to pay $10,000 compensation to both victims.

Northbound Auckland traffic backed up beyond Mt Wellington after a six-car crash at Spaghetti Junction blocked several lanes yesterday.

Speed and alcohol are believed to have contributed to a fatal crash in Silverdale last night, police say.

State Highway 25 remains closed, after a collision between a motorcycle and a car left one person dead.

Traffic on Auckland's Southern Motorway is now flowing free, after a cement truck and a car collided earlier this morning.

A man has been seriously injured after his car crashed into a tree in Wairarapa overnight.

A pedestrian is in a serious condition in hospital this morning after being hit by a taxi in Auckland overnight.

Police are looking for the driver of a flat deck utility who may have witnessed a boy being struck down in Whakatane yesterday.

Thirteen people were treated at the scene of a crash yesterday after a car crossed the centre line in Waikato and ploughed into a vanload of people.

The morning sun glints off the Sentinel building towering above Takapuna and the citybound traffic is starting to thicken on the harbour bridge as I start up the southern span.

Police are still in the dark as to what caused a Dutch visitor to lie down on a dimly-lit Wanaka road before he was run over by a taxi and killed last weekend.

A 17-year-old boy was airlifted to hospital after suffering multiple injuries in a crash in the Hawkes Bay this morning.

A 51-year-old man died after being flung into the path of an oncoming vehicle in a crash in Waikato over the weekend.

Mystery object that killed Rutger Hale while he was driving on State Highway 6 last year almost certainly came from an oncoming vehicle, inquest hears.

An LPG tanker that caught fire early today is blocking a Waikato road, police say.

A Dutch pedestrian killed when he was hit by a taxi in Wanaka at the weekend may have been lying on the road at the time, police say.

Police have not ruled out that a man struck and killed by a car in Wanaka overnight was lying in the road when he was hit.

A young woman suffered numerous injuries when she was pinned by a vehicle that crashed in Manawatu yesterday.

One person died in a crash between Nelson and Murchison this morning.